Jimson Weed Quotes & Sayings

Just because you don't know the exact country or tribe that your ancestors descended from, doesn't mean they aren't apart of your ethnic make-up. Black history didn't begin in slavery, we have a beautiful royal dynasty that began around 830 CE (CE is the correct term to use, most people know this as AD). My visits to Nigeria gave me a sense of pride to be connected to such a rich history that will never be taken away from me.-part of an excerpt from my second book, Ebony Jones — Ebony Jones-Kuye

As fog moved to the mainland I heard a flock of birds fly over. They sounded like a dress rustling, a dress being unfastened and dropping to the floor. Fog came unpinned like hair. On the beach cliffs, great colonies of datura - jimson weed - with their white trumpet flowers, looked like brass bands. — Gretel Ehrlich

The irrepressible spirit that made his playing seem like good conversation is the Rubinstein legacy for pianists, if they can pick up their heads from the keyboard long enough to claim it. — Donal Henahan

Mr. Weasley looked for a moment as though he was going to ask what these big plans were, but seemed to decide, upon reflection, that he didn't want to know. — J.K. Rowling

This is not a dictatorship, this is based upon scientific evidence to support a given project. If you want to put up a building, say half a mile high, the material has to be available. Using statistics is not a dictatorship. It's a method of getting the most from existing resources. — Jacque Fresco

Magic is, in its core, introverted and closed; it's the most closed community ever, and I want to change all that and make it more open. If we want things to change, we have to be more open-minded. — Marco Tempest

The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable. — Sun Tzu

Over three hundred years ago Galileo said: You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself. — Dale Carnegie

This is my life. I don't need a piece of paper to make it a family unit. — Kourtney Kardashian

Religion was no cure for dysfunction. — Marjorie M. Liu

I think anyone who's perfectly happy isn't particularly funny. — Joan Rivers

The passion to produce is very great. One man, who has not yet been assigned his little garden plot, is hopefully watering a jimson weed simply to have something of his own growing. — John Steinbeck

When one has learned to wait patiently, one has learned to live. — Myrtle Reed

The soul is a prolonged anniversary of our lives in this world. — Sorin Cerin

You people did a good thing."
"That's what we do," Nate said quietly. — Keith R.A. DeCandido

This is rock 'n' roll, Mags. It don't understand discreet. - Julian MacAvoy — Toni Kenyon